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THE SIGNISTS BOOK 



OF 



MODERN ALPHABETS 

PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL, ANCIENT AND MEDIAEVAL, FROM THE 
EIGHTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, WITH NUMERALS. 

Including German, Old English, Saxon, Italic, Perspective, Greek, Hebrew, Court 
Hand, Engrossing, Tuscan, Riband, Gothic, Rustic, and Arabesque, with several 
^Original Designs and An Analysis of the Roman and Old English Alphabets, 
/Large, Small, and Numerals, Church Text, Large and Small; German Arabesque; 
Initials for Illumination, Monograms, Crosses, &c, for the use of Architectural 
and Engineering Draughtsmen, Surveyors, Masons, Decorative Painters, Lithog- 
raphers, Engravers, Carvers, &c, &c. :::::::::::::::: 

COLLECTED AND ENGRAVED BY F. DELAMOTTE. 




CHICAGO! 

FREDERICK J. DRAKE & CO., PUBLISHERS 



LIBRARY of CONGRESS 
Two Copies Received 

APR 14 1906 

* Copyright Ent/y 
CLASS CC, XXc. No, 

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~COPY B. 



Copyright 1906 

by 

Frederick J. Drake & Co. 



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PREFACE. 




S there are no works of Ancient and Modern Alphabets of any excellence 

published in a cheap form, I have been induced, after many years' study 

and research in my profession as a Draughtsman and Engraver, to offer 

this collection to the favorable notice of the public, trusting that its very 

moderate price and general usefulness will be a sufficient apology for the 

undertaking. 

The demand for a Second Edition within so short a period of the publi- 
cation of the first, has convinced me in the most agreeable manner that it has 
been a work required by the public. To render it still more worthy of their 
attention, I have here introduced some additions, likely to enhance the interest 
and increase the value of the pages, as an indication of the esteem -in which 
I have held the encouragement, and the respect I have paid to the suggestions 
of the purchasers of this book, and the critics by whom it has been so liberally 

reviewed. 

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